Their Eyes Were Watching God Rhetorical Analysis

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In Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston uses a variety of rhetorical devices to show the effect it has on the readers. Which without the particulary words, it would infact would not have the same meaning as the author achieved. At the outset, the author begins by telling the passage as any other day with Janie being under the blossom pear tree. Hurston employs “first tiny bloom had opened” to show that this was not meant to taken literal instead it is hyperbole. The author does this to show how long Janie has been to the pear tree. In addition, the author uses “from barren browns stems to glistening leaf-buds” to show a picture on how the surrounding look like. Therefore, using visual imagery to accomplish this. Hurston then

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